Email accounts question

[Tom]

I use my cellphone for internet access and its throttled pretty bad for tethering it to my laptop. I use a scanner hooked to the laptop to send documents once a week.
Using yahoo mail, it takes 10 minutes or so before I can start composing an email.
I think this is because it has to load the ads before I can use it. My documents are typically 13-20 megabytes and take several minutes to attach. I assume this is because of my internet throttling.
Anyway, does anybody have any suggestions for a good email provider that might speed things up?
Probably nothing can be done about the time for files to load, but being able to click on compose and start immediately would be nice.
I'm not above paying for a service.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Rick H]

My cell phone is very location dependent. Around home and the city data connections are easy and relatively rapid. Up near my cabin or Michigan's UP It is almost impossible to get data connections without wifi. Sending a picture may take hours. I'm not sure if this is throttling or just poor high speed coverage. It would be impossible for me to use my phone as a hot spot in those areas. My service is with Verizon and I do get decent phone service if I can get a signal at all. Text works but lags badly.

As bad as this sounds, other phone services (T-mobile, Sprint, ATT, and Trac phones can't even get phone service in these areas)

 

[Tom]

Yeah, I've got Verizon too. It's fairly fast when I've got a good signal, but the connection speed is severely throttled (70k or so) when using it as a wifi hotspot.

 

[Rick]

I use Yahoo email. They have at least two levels of service, the free account with the ads and paid accounts with no ads. I'm cheap and use the free service. Can't say if the paid service would be any faster for your documents but there shouldn't be any ads. Since you already have Yahoo you could check them out.

 

[smokeywolf]

Tom, we're rural enough that, not only do we not have DSL or fiber optic, we don't have a land line phone unless we subscribe to a satellite service. We told ViaSat to go do something physically impossible to themselves over a year ago. We are completely dependent on our cell phones for voice and data. We have a cell tower pretty close, so signal does not drop out. We use Cricket and only get throttled back when we've used our 15 Gig per line per month allotment (we have 5 lines). If one of the lines does exhaust its 15 Gig allotment, we buy another 15 Gig for (for whatever line ran out) $10 added to our bill. The additional 15 Gig is added immediately.

Cricket is a subsidiary of ATT and uses ATT infrastructure, so coverage is pretty good.

I don't get any kind of benefit whatsoever from recommending Cricket.

 

[JWFilips]

Tom,
My studio has a Gmail account ( we are grandfathered in to when a commercial account was still free!) however a private account is still free and it is fast! The studio account has been great for near 20 years! And we had upwards of 16 people on the Commercial account at one time when the world was a better place and the economy was booming!
GMail has a lot of extra perks like Google drive for your private cloud storage & sharing of images and documents! It is free

 

[fiver]

you could always do what we do when we are over to the trout lake and need good wi-fi.
we drop down off the lake to the rail road tracks and tie into the Hotels Wi-Fi,, which emanates down the rail line about 15 miles better than it works in the hotel itself.
well,, when a train ain't on that part of the tracks anyway.